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22. She was Bill Clinton's deputy director for former Soviet Union affairs.

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 06:49 AM

Sep 2014

she was also U.S. ambassador to NATO and a special envoy for Conventional Armed Forces in Europe treaty negotiations. She is fluent in Russian.

She is there because she is a recognized State Department expert on Russia and Europe.

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